Cadillac wins the 6 Hours of Monza as Toyota’s #8 crew and Jonny Edgar take the WEC titles
Aitken, Bourdais and Bamber beat the #36 Alpine by 5.607 seconds, Hartley, Hirakawa and Buemi clinch the Hypercar title in tenth, and the #92 Manthey Porsche wins LMGT3
Updated 11 November 2026: results and standings now follow the final classification. Two post-race penalties dropped the #007 Aston Martin to 12th, and the #8 Toyota was classified tenth.
The #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA of Jack Aitken, Sébastien Bourdais and Earl Bamber won the 6 Hours of Monza on Sunday, the final round of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship. After 191 laps they finished 5.607 seconds ahead of the #36 Alpine of Jules Gounon and Victor Martins, according to the final classification (FIA WEC, Al Kamel timing).
Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sébastien Buemi are the 2026 Hypercar world champions. Their #8 Toyota finished tenth, one lap down, one place ahead of the sister #7 of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries. Tenth was worth one point, so the #8 crew end the season on 115 points, 18 clear of the #7. In LMGT3, Jonny Edgar takes the drivers’ title in the #33 TF Sport Corvette.
Starting grid and qualifying: WEC Monza 2026 starting grid. Weekend schedule: WEC Monza 2026 schedule.
Alpine second in its last WEC race, Ferrari third
Alpine signed off from the WEC with second place. The #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi completed the podium, 35.767 seconds behind the winner. The #007 Aston Martin of Harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble took the chequered flag third, but two post-race penalties dropped it to 12th in the final classification, one lap down and out of the points. The #94 Peugeot of Loïc Duval, Malthe Jakobsen and Théo Pourchaire is classified fourth, Peugeot’s best result of the season.
Hypercar top 10 at Monza
| Pos | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps/Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 | Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA | Jack Aitken, Sébastien Bourdais, Earl Bamber | 191 laps |
| 2 | 36 | Alpine Endurance Team | Jules Gounon, Victor Martins | +5.607 |
| 3 | 51 | Ferrari AF Corse | Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi | +35.767 |
| 4 | 94 | Peugeot TotalEnergies | Loïc Duval, Malthe Jakobsen, Théo Pourchaire | +54.890 |
| 5 | 15 | BMW M Team WRT | Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marciello, Dries Vanthoor | +1:03.128 |
| 6 | 83 | AF Corse | Yifei Ye, Robert Kubica, Philip Hanson | +1:26.952 |
| 7 | 20 | BMW M Team WRT | Robin Frijns, René Rast, Sheldon van der Linde | +1:29.925 |
| 8 | 93 | Peugeot TotalEnergies | Paul di Resta, Nick Cassidy, Alex Quinn | +1:31.878 |
| 9 | 50 | Ferrari AF Corse | Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen | +1:32.899 |
| 10 | 8 | Toyota Racing | Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa, Sébastien Buemi | 1 lap |
Gaps are to the class winner. Final classification, FIA WEC (fiawec.com, Al Kamel timing).
Manthey wins LMGT3, Edgar takes the title
The #92 The Bend Manthey Porsche of Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz won LMGT3 by 0.270 seconds from the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin of Gray Newell, Jonny Adam and Eduardo Barrichello. Third place for the #33 Corvette was enough for Edgar, who ends the season on 107 points, four ahead of his team-mate Nicky Catsburg.
LMGT3 top 5 at Monza
| Pos | No. | Team | Drivers | Laps/Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 92 | The Bend Manthey | Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera, Richard Lietz | 173 laps |
| 2 | 23 | Heart of Racing Team | Gray Newell, Eduardo Barrichello, Jonny Adam | +0.270 |
| 3 | 33 | TF Sport | Ben Keating, Jonny Edgar, Nicky Catsburg | +9.600 |
| 4 | 69 | Team WRT | Anthony McIntosh, Parker Thompson, Daniel Harper | +22.883 |
| 5 | 91 | Manthey DK Engineering | James Cottingham, Timur Boguslavskiy, Ayhancan Güven | +28.246 |
Gaps are to the class winner. Final classification, FIA WEC (fiawec.com, Al Kamel timing).
Toyota take both Hypercar titles
In the Hypercar drivers’ championship the #8 crew finish on 115 points, ahead of the #7 on 97. The #15 BMW of Magnussen and Marciello is third on 85, with Bamber and Bourdais fourth on 81 after the Monza win, level on points with Rast and Frijns of the #20 BMW. Toyota also take the manufacturers’ title with 215 points, ahead of BMW on 172, Ferrari on 150, Cadillac on 143 and Alpine on 122.
In LMGT3, Edgar’s 107 points put him ahead of Catsburg on 103 and the #92 Manthey crew on 99, who rose to third with their Monza win. Keating is fourth on 85 and the #69 WRT crew fifth on 78.
Our verdict
Toyota won the title in the least dramatic way possible for a finale: both cars a lap down, one point for the #8 and none for the #7, and the gap from the earlier rounds was enough. That says more about the #8 crew’s season than about Sunday. The race itself belonged to the others. Cadillac turned third on the grid into the win, and Alpine leaving the WEC in second place is a better goodbye than most expected. Two post-race penalties dropped the #007 from third to 12th, but that does not change the story of the day: Toyota champions on points, Cadillac winners on track.
Full championship tables: FIA WEC standings 2026. What comes next: FIA WEC calendar 2027.
Photos from the weekend: Rick Kiewiet’s pictures from the 6 Hours of Monza are on RNT Media.
Source: FIA WEC, final race classification and championship standings (fiawec.com, Al Kamel timing), checked 11 November 2026.
The champions: the #8 Toyota of Hartley, Hirakawa and Buemi that won the 2026 WEC title.
Race report from Monza, with Rick Kiewiet’s photos: how the JOTA Cadillac won the 6 Hours of Monza.
Did the right crew win the 2026 WEC title, or did the #7 Toyota deserve more this season? Tell us in the comments.
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